Child & Adolescent Mental Health Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work as a clinician within the Paediatric Liaison based within Kings College hospital. The post holder will work to provide rapid response, clinical assessment and intervention for patients whoattend A&E to facilitate the patients discharge and prevent hospital admission. Where clinically appropriate and when an inpatient admission is indicated the post holder will work collaboratively with colleagues to facilitate this.

Participate as a multi-disciplinary team member in the assessment of children and young people presenting to the acute hospital environment due to mental health difficulties or children and young people admitted to medical wards who require assessment of or additional support for ongoing acute emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties.

To formulate and implement mental healthcare and crisis treatment plans that are specific to each CYP and family alongside providing a high standard of care to clients. To assess safeguarding concernsfor each case, consulting with other professionals and referring concerns to the appropriate safeguarding team as required.

Ensure that all recording and reporting of client contact are accurate, up to date, of good quality and within CAMHS and professional requirement standards of record keeping. To collect & collate information about individual clinical activity on ePJS.

Work with the team, physical health colleagues and clients to maintain a safe therapeutic environment. Work to assure the quality of care through achieving high operational standards in clinical systems.

To maintain and ensure good professional standards and attitudes towards the care and treatment of children, young people and their families.

To link with other statutory and voluntary agencies and professionals as well as other CAMHS Teams in terms of referrals and joint work such as school, social care, youth teams etc. Maintain goodrelationships and clear lines of communication with other professional agencies and departments, providing specialist advice and support where appropriate.

Contribute to the effective functioning of the team and service through attendance at relevant meetings, taking responsibilities within the service as appropriate and negotiated with the line manager.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant professional training will include: first level qualification/registration i.e., RMN, Social worker, OT, RSCN or HV with related CAMHS experience
• All applications will require professional registration with a statutory body e.g. the Nursing Midwifery Council, General Social care council, Health professional's council or applicable psychological or psychotherapies body
• Excellent risk assessment and documentation skills
• Good verbal communication, written and report writing skills
• Effective self / time management

Desirable

• Familiarity with therapeutic approaches commonly used in CAMHS e.g. CBT, Family Therapy

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of working with children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds
• Working knowledge of MHA, MCA and safeguarding children legislation
• Prompt and accurate recording on to electronic notes system and an understanding of the need for this

Desirable

• Previous experience of working in A&E/Crisis settings
• Experience of multi-agency collaboration and integrated working

Knowledge/Skills

Essential

• Knowledge and understanding of issues relating to information sharing and confidentiality
• Understanding of/ability to maintain a safe therapeutic environment and work under pressure
• Ability to work in partnership with service users and carers in the planning and delivery of care
• Ability to maintain effective professional relationships with all team members
• Ability to work therapeutically with the client group, using a range of therapeutic interventions

Desirable

• Knowledge of assessment of behaviour and emotional disorders and difficulties, relationship difficulties, attachment difficulties and clinical psychometrics
• Knowledge of childhood disorders including emotional and behavioural disorders, relationship difficulties and attachment disorders and theories of child development
• Knowledge of child safeguarding and child protection framework

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kings College Hospital

Denmark Hill

London

SE5 9RS

Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)